“Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
"But the One on the Right" in The New Yorker (1929)
Context: That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
Parker's answer when asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence?, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970).
Source: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
“Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.”
Source: The Collected Dorothy Parker
“A lady … with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.”
Concerning a child actress in A. A. Milne's play Give Me Yesterday; in her review of same, "Just Around Pooh Corner" in The New Yorker (14 March 1931)
"When We Were Very Sore (Lines on Discovering That You Have Been Advertised as America's A. A. Milne)", first printed in New York World (10 March 1927) p. 15; based on A. A. Milne's "Happiness"
Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (1996)
"Our Lady of the Loudspeaker" in The New Yorker (25 February 1928)